SMEDLEY’S STORIES
National Heavy Vehicle Regulator update: Assessor Sign-Off approval process
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) has introduced a new work procedure which introduces tighter limits on what certification anomalies can be approved via an Assessor Sign-Off (ASO). Certification anomalies occur when an as-built combination does not...
Industry Icon: Mick Vawdrey
As Australia’s largest privately owned OEM, Vawdrey Australia has set many a technology trend over the past 40 years. But if you ask Mick Vawdrey, the man who started it all, it’s the company’s committed workforce that continues to make all the difference....
Industry Icon: Bob Pearson
It was an unusually windy day in the spring of 1983 when a group of journalists, policemen, council representatives and local businessmen got together in an abandoned yard in Port Melbourne to witness trucking history in the making. The sooty dirt was whirling...
Industry Icon: Bob Woodward
It’s safe to say the advent of the B-double – still the nation’s most prevalent High Productivity Freight Vehicle (HPFV) – paved the way for the development of Australia’s world unique Performance-Based Standards (PBS) scheme – both from a mentality and engineering...